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From: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NISUS wordprocessor
Message-ID: <21081@santra.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 89 08:29:06 GMT
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Reply-To: jmunkki@kampi.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
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In article <90377@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
>In article <882@tasis.utas.oz> ben@tasis.utas.oz (Ben Lian) writes:
><Does anyone know anything about NISUS, "The Amazing Word Processor for
><the Macintosh", from Paragon Concepts?  How does it compare with MS Word
><3.02?
> 
> The reviews I've seen (here?) basically point out that it is superior for
> manipulating words, especially doing search/replace. But Word is superior
> for final layout of pages. For example, I beleive I read that NISUS does
> not have headers and footers yet.

Nisus does have headers and footers. Only two really important features
seem to be missing:

	1)  Hyphenation.
		There's no way to soft hyphenate or even automatically
		hyphenate text. This might not be a problem with English
		text, but it certainly is with Finnish.
	2)  Footnotes.
		You might be able to do this with pictures, but it would
		be nicer to have real footnotes.

I'd also like to have a grid when I'm drawing. The FullWrite grid is pretty
awful, but at least I have some way of aligning my lines & boxes.

In some ways Nisus is superior to both Word and FullWrite, but I guess
FullWrite is better, if you have a Mac II & at least 2 MB RAM. I hope
they get the bugs out of FullWrite. Nisus seems to be pretty stable,
but it does have a few "features" (changing from inches to centimeters
doesn't immediately update the rulers!)


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